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Ok well I know they are the most uncool thing you could do to a car but I am just getting my whole front end resprayed and after a few months of travelling up and down the freeway every day it will get to be as bad as it is now...

So the question is... where would I get a car bra to fit my R33 and VeilSide style bar?? or would there be any other options out there worth considering??

Thank yer...

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with car bra's i wouldnt have them on all the time, hence because of the sun paint fades in time if you keep you bra on long enough u will see a line on your paint where it was, i would only use mine on specific cruises etc..general suburb driving..well if you get a rock u get one not to much you can do.

meh.. its only a front bar.. Why pay $300+ for a car bra, when you can get your front bar resprayed for that much?

I drove 1600km from Melbourne to the Gold Coast.. did i get one stone chip in my recently painted front bar on the way.. nope.

Sorry but you can't be so protective. Its a car, if you drive on the street it will gradually wear. Its what happens. Otherwise garage the car and never use it.

You can buy thick clear flexible plastic which does the same job. Imagine that contact stuff you used to put on your schoolbooks, but thicker. Virtually invisible, which is the point. Not sure where to get it but I remember seeing an ad for it a few years ago in the NRMA magazine.

My mate has an SS commo and a few years back his GF ripped half the front spoiler off parking up to the kerb at a 7-11 store. He didn't have the cash to fix it so a mate gave him a car bra he had lying around to hold it up. This was in winter and when he finally took it off not long later to fix the bar it had rubbed a line on the bonnet nearly down to bare metal. It was a combination of wet weather and grit, dirt whatever and engine vibration making the car bra a big piece of sandpaper. The car bra was in the guys shed and I dont know if he cleaned it first so it prolly had a fair bit of crap in it already.

Anyway, i'll never use one.

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